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Industry news

Jul. 30, 2008 HIGHLIGHT NEWS
SOI Global Market Poised for Double-Digit Growth Through 2012

[VLSI Research Inc]

Jul. 30, 2008 Market for SOI to reach $1.1B by 2012, VLSI Research reports
[Electronic News]

Jul. 16, 2008 Soitec Ready With Ultrathin SOI Wafers
[Semiconductor International]

Jul. 4, 2008 CISSOID introduce a new High Temperature Logic Family
CISSOID, a leader in high temperature semiconductor solutions and the pioneer of Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) products, announced its CHT-74 Logic Family for extreme temperatures. CHT-74 series fit market requirements for Oil & Gas, Aeronautics, Space and Automotive applications with a large temperature range from -55°C to 225°C. [CISSOID]

Jun. 17, 2008 Intel explores floating-body cells on SOI
[EE Times]

Jun. 5, 2008 Selete Achieves 5 GHz Pulses on Silicon Photonics IC
[Semiconductor International]

May. 28, 2008 IBM Unveils Three Energy-Efficient Servers Powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processors
[AMD]

May. 13, 2008 45th Design Automation Conference Panels Cover Industry’s Varied Interests, Challenges, Direction, Future
Close to 30 Technical Programs, Pavilion Panels to be Held Over Four Days [Business Wire]

May. 5, 2008 Honeywell Announces New High Temperature Analog Silicon Chip for Aerospace and Deep Drilling Operations
[PRNewswire]

Apr. 22, 2008 Rambus announces IBM to license multi-protocol SerDes
[Rambus]

Apr. 8, 2008 Honeywell debuts ASICs, memory circuits in rad-hard SOI process
[EE Times]

Apr. 7, 2008 AMD unveils three chips for embedded systems
[EE Times]

Mar. 27, 2008 AMD Launches World’s First x86 Triple-Core Processors
[AMD]

Mar. 27, 2008 High Performance AMD Phenom™ X4 Processors Lead the Charge to HD Desktop Gaming and Video
[AMD]

Mar. 27, 2008 AMD Extends Energy-Efficient Processing Leadership with World’s First 65-Watt Quad-Core Desktop Processor
[AMD]

Mar. 25, 2008 Emerging materials on the Roadmap for silicon-based IC systems
[Solid State Technology]

Mar. 17, 2008 Telematics heralds self-driving car
[EE Times]

Mar. 11, 2008 IBM's Starkey: The case for SOI won't diminish w/ shrink
[Solid State Technology]

Mar. 4, 2008 AMD moves cautiously into the 45 nm era
[BetaNews]

Feb. 27, 2008 Toshiba Announces Low Voltage, Low Resistance Power MOSFETs For Notebook PC Battery Protection Circuit Module Applications
[Toshiba]

Feb. 26, 2008 Toshiba Announces Series Of High Voltage Single Chip Inverters For Brushless Motor Applications In Energy Saving Appliances
[Toshiba]

Feb. 25, 2008 Lightwire claims silicon photonics advance
[fibresystems]

Feb. 21, 2008 Advanced engineered substrates boost chip performance
[EUREKA]

Jan. 1, 2008 Executive Outlook: Driving Productivity, CoO in 2008
André-Jacques Auberton-Hervé, President and CEO, The Soitec Group [Semiconductor International]

Dec. 20, 2007 Innovative Silicon: a little company quietly upending the DRAM business
[EDN]